After agreeing to face the CBI scrutiny on Tuesday in connection with the Delhi excise scam, TRS MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha has now asked for more time, owing to her “preoccupied schedule.”
Kavitha also ostensibly questioned the probe agency's intention in wanting to grill her.
In her letter to CBI on Monday, Kavitha said she had “carefully gone through the contents of the FIR, list of accused persons as well as contents of the complaint dated 22 July.”
“I wish to place on record that my name does not figure in any manner whatsoever,” stated the former Lok Sabha MP and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter.
Kavitha further said that she is not in a position to meet the CBI officials on Tuesday, “as proposed, because of my preoccupied schedule.”
“I will be able to meet you either on the 11th 12th or 14th 15th of December, whichever is convenient to you, at my residence in Hyderabad,” Kavitha wrote to Raghavendra Vatsa, Head of Branch / DIG, CBI, ACB, Delhi, while asking for confirmation at the earliest.
While stating that she is “a law-abiding citizen and will cooperate with the investigation,” Kavitha added that her meeting with CBI officials for questioning “is without prejudice to my legal rights available under law.”
TBJP leaders opined Kavitha delayed her meeting with CBI as a tactic to buy time to find a legal way out from further prosecution in the case.
Delhi and Telangana BJP leaders have been alleging Kavitha's involvement in the Delhi liquor scam for some time now.
Kavitha was on Friday issued a notice in which CBI officials said that she needs to be examined in the case registered against Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, GNCT of Delhi and 14 others regarding the allegations pertaining to Delhi excise policy for 2021-22.
On the same day, Kavitha, a former Lok Sabha MP, revealed that she agreed to meet the agency sleuths at her Hyderabad residence as per their request on 6 December.
However, Kavitha's change of stand reportedly came after a meeting she had with her father KCR at Pragathi Bhavan.
On Saturday, Kavitha asked CBI for copies of the complaint and other documents pertaining to the Delhi excise scam, "to enable her acquaint and answer appropriately (the CBI queries) within a reasonable period of time.”
“Date of our meeting can be fixed at Hyderabad after the receipt of the documents,” Kavitha said in her letter to CBI on Saturday.
CBI replied saying the required documents are available online.
The CBI notice to Kavitha, under Section 160 of Cr.PC, came following the inclusion of her name in the Enforcement Directorate's remand report of Amit Arora, one of the accused in the alleged fraud.
Kavitha's supporters are defending her, calling the notices etc as “BJP's political conspiracy against KCR's daughter”
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